The Latest Breaking News from the Middle East

President-elect Trump's second administration key appointments include Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and Lebanon, US strikes in Syria, and a hostage situation in Gaza highlight the volatile situation in the Middle East.

Trump has also tapped close friend Steven Witkoff to be special envoy to Middle East, despite scant experience.

Current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza (now spreading across the Middle East), have placed Germany in a difficult position, forcing it to reconsider its role in the world. A uniquely German sense of guilt and shame for the Holocaust “inseparably” ties the Israel-Palestine conflict to “Germany’s unquestionable solidarity with Israel”,…

Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has brought big questions about what it means for Nato, Ukraine, the Middle East and, of course, global trade. Faced with the threat of protectionism, and outside the EU, the UK will have to make some tough choices.

A week after the ‘shock’ re-election of Donald Trump to the Whitehouse and over a year into one of the most blood-soaked periods of the Middle East’s tortured modern history, the question is, what has been lost and has anything been won, and what impact might Trump II have on…

The years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. The war in Ukraine and the escalating violence in the Middle East have dominated global headlines and captured the attention of policymakers and donors. But while the humanitarian toll in…

Even without Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, the Trump administration still could be heading for regime change in the Middle East.

IAEA Director General to visit Iran for discussions on nuclear program amid tensions and uncertainties in the Middle East.